Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Monday, February 12th, 2024.

I'm Brian McCullough.

Today is actual neolutitism.

Going to become a thing as some people have predicted.

Google reveals the strength of its subscription businesses, a review of Google's

Gemini, Blue Sky is open and doing some interesting things, and what about the strategic position

Snap suddenly finds itself in?

Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech. Over the weekend a crowd in San Francisco destroyed a Weymo car amid rising

tensions over automated vehicles in that city.

Weymo says the car quote was not transporting any riders at the time, quoting the

verge. A person jumped on the hood of a waymo driverless taxi and smashed its windshield in

San Francisco's Chinatown last night around 9 p.m. local time February 10th

generating applause before a crowd formed around the car and covered it in

spray paint, breaking its windows and ultimately set it on fire. The fire department arrived minutes later,

according to a report in the Autopian,

but by then flames had already fully engulfed the car.

At the moment, no outlets seemed to have reported

a motive for the attack.

Weimo Representative Sandy Karp told the verge via email that the fully autonomous car, quote,

was not transporting any riders when it was attacked, and fireworks were tossed inside the car

sparking the flames.

Public information officer Roberta Ruka of San Francisco's police department

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